In 1999 I spent a month in Fiordland on the South Island of New Zealand doing research on the short-tailed bat Mystacina tuberculata, which spends a lot of its time foraging on the ground.

This is the bat, and Jane Sedgeley climbing a tree to set a harp tarp to capture long-tailed bats.

Milford Sound, and near Hollyford Valley (bottom right).

Key Summit and a Takahe.

Near Homer Tunnel.

Franz Josef Glacier

Fox Glacier from Gillespie Bay.

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